BEST ANSWER:They work excellent. Extremely durable. You would need a hammer or some other extreme force to break them. I bought four. Very useful for plugging your smartphone or tablet into a mixing console or powered speaker.

BEST ANSWER:They work excellent. Extremely durable. You would need a hammer or some other extreme force to break them. I bought four. Very useful for plugging your smartphone or tablet into a mixing console or powered speaker.

It's been a while since I used a 1/4 plug and jack. I remember that I used to push the plug all the way into the jack. I noticed with these, that if I do that, they don't make a connection. In order for them to work properly I have to back them out a little, going by feel. Does that sound right? Am I missing something?

It is hard to find these adapters going from 3.5mm stereo to 1/4" mono. You can find stereo to stereo all day long, but if you need a stereo to mono, you're normally looking at $5+ each which is ridiculous. I use these for a powered speaker that I take outside and given the small size of this adapter, they get lost fairly frequently. I bought 15 of them this time in hopes that it lasts a year. The quality of these adapters is pretty good. They stand up to repeated inserts and removals on both sides very well and I've never had one fail before I could lose it. I would recommend this to anyone needing to go from 3.5mm stereo to 1/4" mono.